Godular wrote:GuessTheAltAccount wrote:I blame religion. If you attribute pregnancy to a loving "god," you expect him to make pregnancy as safe as possible, and are therefore biased in favour of blaming miscarriages on those who miscarry.
If you attribute pregnancy to cold and unfeeling evolutionary forces, you realize that a 9 month gestation period that's efficient for propagating our genes will nonetheless have some civilian casualties, often through little to no fault of those involved.
Even if we were to speak of religion, even those that are more antagonistic to the idea of abortion access were not always so. I'd go so far as to say that it is not the religion that is the problem, so much as it is the people who use religion to justify oppressive positions.
Then explain why the same people are opposed to embryonic stem cell research.
The Alma Mater wrote:Great Algerstonia wrote:I changed my mind on that after learning that medical professionals couldn't tell between abortion and miscarriage.
The fact that you would be ok with it if medical professionals would be able to do so after subjecting a woman who just had a miscarriage to a barrage of invasive test is sadistic enough.
To be fair, if it were the death of a person instead of a fetus, cops would probably have to investigate the death to make sure it wasn't just some murder made to look like an accident, no matter how offended people are by that. As evidenced by the fact that we can still type this because we haven't been murdered by someone who made it look like an accident.